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		<title>DarkSide.Members++</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/07/darkside-members/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve reinstalled my PC. Down to four partitions &#8211; the Acer recovery partition (the BIOS insists on it, won&#8217;t boot otherwise), 32GB for / (ext4), 4GB of swap and the rest for /home. Yep, no Windows. Except I now have two Windows installs&#8230; You see, I&#8217;ve been using Windows 2000 in VMWare Player for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another day, another rubbish takeover&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/04/another-day-another-rubbish-takeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What on earth is wrong with the corporate world? People are buying other companies they should stay away from, believe me. Take Oracle and Sun. Oracle bought Sun to get their hands on Java, and to turn themselves into an IBM-style one stop shop. Fail. James Gosling has left, many of the key Sun Players [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19 Most Effective Open Source Tools For Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/01/19-most-effective-open-source-tools-for-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/01/19-most-effective-open-source-tools-for-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick one &#8211; if you haven&#8217;t seen this yet, Swati Bansal over at ITSpice has an excellent article &#8211; 19 Most Effective Open Source Tools For Developers. Great roundup if you haven&#8217;t seen it already&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>10 mistakes Google is[n&#039;t] making with Chrome OS</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/10-mistakes-chrome-os/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've just read this piece on eWeek about ten mistakes Google is already making with Chrome OS.  Some I agreed with, some I disagree with, but I felt stroungly enough to post my answers here...  I advise you to read the eWeek article first, otherwise none of this will make any sense...]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s new Public DNS&#8230;  worth a look?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/google-public-dns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google have launched a new service, called Google Public DNS. DNS, for those that don&#8217;t know, is the system that translates a domain name &#8211; such as www.esotechnica.co.uk &#8211; into the actual address that the computer connects to its services: such as retrieving a web page like this one, retrieving (or sending) your email, downloading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19th Century Criminal Trials</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/19th-century-criminal-trials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports that details of criminal trials have been published online in a new archive. Court transcripts aren&#8217;t there, but dates and addresses are, so this is more likely useful as a genealogical resource than anything else. Still, another interesting database&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>First images of Google&#8217;s Chrome OS?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/first-images-of-googles-chrome-os/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/first-images-of-googles-chrome-os/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Indian site called Techno 360 has published what are apparently leaked screenshots of Google&#8217;s Chrome OS. Well, maybe &#8211; the site is sceptical as to their provenance due to the sleek look of them, and Google&#8217;s famed indifference to visual polish. However I&#8217;m not so sure. With the recent upgrades to Gmail and others, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mystery of the .Net Framework Assistant</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/05/the-mystery-of-the-net-framework-assistant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/05/the-mystery-of-the-net-framework-assistant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 09:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has noticed the Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant that gets installed as a Firefox plugin. But what &#8211; if anything &#8211; does it actually do? My theory? It&#8217;s kind of an ActiveX-dotNet-for-Firefox that doesn&#8217;t actually work. Anyone got any better ideas?]]></description>
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		<title>What now for .Net?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/12/what-now-for-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was rambling on about why Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo!, and their seeming acceptance of PHP as a server scripting technology, and this set me thinking about the future of .Net.  .Net has long been touted by Microsoft as the successor to the Win32 API...]]></description>
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		<title>Large Hadron Collider</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/large-hadron-collider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on Yahoo! Answers recently, and noticed that almost every other question seems to be about the Large Hadron Collider, and &#8220;will it destroy the world&#8221;. Well, as far as I can tell, there are four possible answers to that question: They find the Higgs boson The Higgs boson is the magic &#8220;god particle&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Talk Like A Pirate Day</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[International Talk Like A Pirate Day (here in the UK, in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care) is almost upon us (Friday the 19th in fact).  So it&#8217;s time to get your pirate name out, dig out those flags, blow up the inflatable parrot and get ready for 24 hours where every other word is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/interview-with-andrew-tanenbaum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/interview-with-andrew-tanenbaum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How prescient. After talking about Amoeba, Orca and other fluffy Vrije Universitat stuff, PC World just interviewed Andrew Tanenbaum. And MINIX was next on my left for OS of the week, too]]></description>
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		<title>Seen the North Korean nuclear reactor?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/04/seen-the-north-korean-nuclear-reactor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/04/seen-the-north-korean-nuclear-reactor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks a lot like the Syrian one, doesn&#8217;t it: Except that&#8217;s an image from Wikipedia of a Swiss reactor. Most nuclear reactors look much the same, because there aren&#8217;t that many solutions to the same problem. As Public Enemy once said &#8211; Don&#8217;t Believe The Hype.]]></description>
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		<title>Shock news: virtualisation not to be hottest thing on planet next year.</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/12/shock-news-virtualisation-not-to-be-hottest-thing-on-planet-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inquirer&#8217;s top ten trends of 2008, unshockingly, suggests that virtualisation won&#8217;t go mainstream next year. Simon Collis, editor of esotechnica, expresses no surprise: &#8220;virtualisation is gaining slowly among those sort of people who like this kind of thing.  But for those who don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s no big deal.&#8221; Peter Stringfellow, London nightclub owner and entrepreneur, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything changes</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/12/everything-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly the world seems to have changed, one way or the other. First, Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated by a suicide bomber: a disaster for Pakistani politics (if not world politics), as far as I can tell. Then, there&#8217;s the fact that digital storage is much more costly and problematic than traditional film storage.  Or [...]]]></description>
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